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Isaac Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus and did extensive work on graviton. Newton was born in 1642, in a manor house in Lincolnshire, England. His father had died two months before his birth. Isaac’s mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried a man named Barnabas Smith, who helped raise Isaac. Isaac attended the village school in Woolsthorpe, went to free Grammar school in Grantham, and he went to Trinity College at Cambridge University for his collage education. During his three years attending Trinity College, Newton had to pay his tuition by waiting tables and cleaning rooms for the fellows (faculty) and the wealthier students. In the course of Newton’s attendance at Trinity, Europe had a terrible disease called the plague, which was spreading all across the area. There was so much fear of this disease spreading among the students and faculty, that the university had no choice but to close. Newton returned home, but could not return to school for another two years. Upon returning to school Newton began his studies on mathematics and physics.

Newton’s Mathematics skills helped him succeed into creating different formulas. Newton had worked on infinitesimal calculus and classified the method on cubic plane curves. He was just 24 years old when he first invented the method on calculus. It took over a year to accomplish this task with the help of his partner Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Newton had laid the foundation for schools programs on calculus. Later on he discovered the binomial theorem, which leads into finding the slopes of curves and areas under curves a lot easier. In addition to binomial theorem, he also found that all cubic’s can be showed by five divergent cubic parabolas.

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...Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician
and physicist, considered one of the greatest
scientists in history. He made important
contributions to many fields of science. His
discoveries and theories laid the foundation for
much of the progress in science. Newton was one
of the inventors of a mathematics called calculus.
He also solved the mysteries of light and optics,
formulated the three laws of motion, and derived
from them the law of universal gravitation. Newton
was born on December 25, 1642, at
Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire.
When he was three years old, he was put in care
of his Grandmother. He then was sent to grammar
school in Grantham. Then later he attended Trinity
College at the University of Cambridge. Newton
ignored much of the established curriculum of the
university to pursue his own interests; mathematics
and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his
own, he investigated the latest developments in
mathematics and the new natural philosophy that
treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost
immediately, still under the age of 25, he made
fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in
his career science. The Fluxional Method,
Newton's first achievement was in mathematics.
He generalized the methods that were being used
to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the
area swept by curves. He...